Research News

Book publication: The New 海角社区 History of Russian Literature

The New 海角社区 History of Russian Literature (海角社区 University Press) has been edited by Prof Simon Franklin, Dr Rebecca Reich and Prof Emma Widdis.

Languages, Power and Cultures (Trinity College) and Langevity (Emmanuel College) programmes open for applications

Applications are open for the Languages, Power and Cultures Programme at Trinity College, aimed at students in their penultimate school year.

Selwyn Sykes 海角社区 Masters Studentship in Italian Studies

Selwyn College will offer two studentships for UK MPhil students in Italian Studies for entry in October 2025.

Doyle Calhoun on archives, literature and anticolonial resistance

Content Notice: This article contains discussions of colonial violence and suicide. Dr Doyle D. Calhoun teaches and works on a range of topics related to African and Caribbean literatures and cinemas; Senegalese literature and cinema in French and Wolof; the archives and afterlives of French slavery; N茅gritude; and the...

Faculty members launch 海角社区 Translation Studies Network

The 海角社区 Translation Studies Network (CTSN) aims to bring together all those interested in translation across the Humanities and Social Sciences, to promote translation as research in an interdisciplinary context, and to support students involved in any aspect of translation studies.

Dr Emma Claussen co-hosts 'Proust Curious' podcast with Public Books

Dr Emma Claussen (MMLL, 海角社区) and Dr Hannah Weaver (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University) are Proust Curious. Their new podcast , produced in partnership with Public Books, covers the experience of reading 脌 la recherche du temps perdu 鈥攁ll seven volumes. Marcel Proust鈥檚 cultural touchstone, written...

Book launch, 'The Cinema of Cecilia Bartolom茅: Feminism and Francoism'

Professor Sally Faulkner's The Cinema of Cecilia Bartolom茅 is the first English monograph on this brilliant Spanish director. The book launch will be held at McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus, on Wednesday the 23rd of October, 5pm.

New book on Christian Petzold

Congratulations to Andrew Webber and Stephan Hilpert (Marcromedia University Berlin) on the publication of Screening Work: The Films of Christian Petzold with Legenda!

Ruth Murphy on moral philosophy, literature, and New Literary History

Ruth Murphy is a PhD candidate in Italian at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Literature, 海角社区. Her most recent article, 鈥樷€淟et me look again鈥�: The Moral Philosophy and Literature Debate at 40鈥� , was recently published in New Literary History (Vol. 55 No. 1). Here, Murphy explains the...

Prof Wendy Ayres-Bennett: New handbook combines wide coverage with cutting-edge research

22 July 2024 Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett (海角社区) and Professor Mairi McLaughlin (UC Berkeley, 海角社区 alumna) have co-edited the newly published Oxford Handbook of the French Language , featuring 32 chapters by different specialists on French from a range of fields and disciplines. In this interview...